A beautiful young woman, Isidora Rufete, comes to Madrid with what she believes is documentary proof that she and her brother Mariano are the illegitimate grandchildren of the Marquesa de Aransis. She is prepared to risk all for the man she loves, and for her dream of nobility.
This novel from Benito Perez Galdos is one of the towering masterpieces of nineteenth-century Spanish literature, a distinction that rests in large part on the indelible character of Dona Perfecta. As a new widow desperate to escape destitution, Dona Perfecta promised the hand of her young daughter in marriage to her nephew Pepe. But when the time comes for the wedding to be planned, Dona Perfecta has changed her mind -- and she embarks on a ruthless campaign of terror to ensure that the ceremony never takes place.
This volume provides an annotated critical edition of Galdós' Tristana (1892). Set in fin de siècle Madrid, this unique text reflects upon the ruling elites' political appropriation and exploitation of feminism and the human rights movement, and a variety of literary and philosophical issues associated with late-romantic thought.
Don Benito Pérez Galdós estrenó Electra, drama en cinco actos, la noche del 30 de enero de 1901 en el Teatro Español de Madrid. Sobre un escenario se enfrentan, un vez más, las dos Españas; la progresista y liberal, encarnada en la figura de Máximo, y la retrógrada y clerical, que encuentra en el personaje de don Salvador Pantoja su principal exponente. Galdós tomó de prestado el texto de Electra de Sófocles, pero en la Electra de Galdós, ella es una huérfana acogida por sus tíos que intentan encerrarla en un convento en contra de su deseo.
This is a translation and compilation of four books into one volume by the notable Spanish author Benito Perez Galdos. Usually the books are broken up into four separate stories, but this volume brings together all of the novels to provide their true meaning by juxtaposing them. Galdos is widely considered the most important Spanish language author since Cervantes.
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